eBay·Software Engineer

eBay Software Engineer interview experience

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I interviewed for a position on the payments team at eBay, and the questions were pretty distinctive.

One prompt asked about using gradient descent to find the minimum of a function like x squared plus one, so I had to reason through optimization rather than just code.

The other question came with a graph setup where nodes were connected and distances were given. I proposed using BFS while tracking the path during traversal, and when the interviewer asked whether that approach could also return the actual shortest-path route in the graph, I had to think through how the traversal would translate to the final path representation.

The process felt like a focused, two-question interview rather

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